It's a great pleasure for me to introduce Betsy Brown Braun to you guys today. Betsy 's a child development and behavior specialist, a parenting consultant, a multiple-birth parentingconsultant, and the founder of Parenting Pathways, Inc.
of disorganized in my thinking. And Betsy Lerner, my very verbal co-author, reorganized my thoughts, and so we worked together knowing how we have different kinds of skills.
Sometimes the effect of the hearing-- we did not stop people from-- like, we did not stop Betsy DeVos from getting confirmed. The vice president, for the first time in history, had to come down and cast the tie-breaking vote to get her confirmed.
We know that the book exists. It's Betsy , the ancient receptionist who apparently sleeps under her desk.
So I went to SecondLife.com and created an avatar and that was fun. It was like my Betsy McCall doll, you know getting her dressed and figuring out not so easy for me how to make her move forward and not bump into furniture. And then flying which is very cool cause you kind of felt like, kind of felt like Harry Potter on the back of Buckbeak, cause its first person you know you're watching and
A real Marty? You can see from that very beautiful table, the festive Papel Picado garland behind me, and this delicious margarita in my hand -- What And I also had Betsy Hawes, Elizabeth Hawes, help me write that first book.
said oh what's that you know bright colors are you know good little Grabbers so um Betsy handed her the the uh cover mockup and Jill happens to be uh in line with this type of uh diet maintenance
in the world like waterworks or something like that, if they haven't had real experiences with actual real things like tools, they don't understand them. I was trying to explain Betsy leverage using little kids websites, and she only understood it when I said, hey, Betsy , have you ever pried the lid off a paint can? And then I explained the leverage.
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I think most people probably know her primarily as an author. That's how I first learned about Betsy . She has two books, "Just Tell Me What to Say" and "You're Not the Boss of Me," both bestsellers.
And you're having trouble with this, and you come and see Betsy . I didn't have a Betsy . I was 22 years old when I got married.
But, yeah, to just see an older lady have a little bit of fun and excitement, that's one of the nice things that this musical has given us. So you see, as Betsy says, sometimes it's never too late to make a change.
And it might not have been that way if this weren't the age of internet video. But I sat and watched your questioning of Betsy DeVos and other cabinet nominees and things like that. So it seems like that committee work is really high-profile.
about, was going nuts the way Yuppie wives do, and saying, get it done. And one day, Betsy said, I did it. I said, what was it on?
It's a great pleasure for me to introduce Betsy Brown Braun to you guys today. Betsy 's a child development and behavior specialist, a parenting consultant, a multiple-birth parenting
She's also been involved in elementary and childhood education for over 40 years, is a mom to triplets. Right, Betsy ? Yeah. My wife and I first met Betsy almost two years ago after reading her books. We found out that she's actually local, lives in the Pacific Palisades, and she leads groups.
Mother came in. He was three. And she said, Betsy , my child is really-- Gifted? Yeah, definitely. And I said, great, I'm sure you're really happy.
All right, let's get to know these characters for a moment, roughly in the order of appearance. So I'm going to start with you, Betsy . At the start of the show, we're introduced to your character, Anne Hathaway, not that one, who has some thoughts when her husband starts talking about his new work,
But, yeah, to just see an older lady have a little bit of fun and excitement, that's one of the nice things that this musical has given us. --in the future. But-- so-- Betsy says yes.
But, yeah, to just see an older lady have a little bit of fun and excitement, that's one of the nice things that this musical has given us. As a veteran in Broadway, Betsy , was there any particular advice that you tried to give to your colleagues, who it was
with coworkers at work. were not making. And so both Betsy and I are locked up at home, COVID.
with coworkers at work. I was doing a bunch of calls on Zoom and I called Betsy up and I said, let's do a book.
They're free of charge. And with that, I give you Betsy Teutsch. Thanks so much. It's really great to be at Google.
All right. Hi, there. I'm Betsy Wolfe, and I play Anne Hathaway. not that one. Not that one.
And parenting gets attacked like it's another career. You do everything you need to do, and you come to see Betsy for school. And you're having trouble with this, and you come and see Betsy .
You do everything you need to do, and you come to see Betsy for school. And you're having trouble with this, and you come and see Betsy . I didn't have a Betsy .
Not to get too political, but the political is personal in this conversation. And just a few months after taking office, Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Betsy DeVos, and Jeff Sessions rescinded lifesaving guidance promoting the protection of transgender students. They've appointed anti-equality extremist people who've compared being gay to pedophilia and called transgender youth part of Satan's plan.
--at the next discipline seminar. OK, good. So without any further ado, I'm going to introduce Betsy Brown Braun, everyone. Thank you. I'm so not a clapping sort of person.
- It was... Yeah, it got contentious. So you've got intellects competing, and eventually, the technical merits for some people are secondary, and it's about "Are you Dave Plummer?" I said, "Yeah." She said, "Are you the guy that wrote Visual ZIP?" I said, "Yeah." And she said, "Well, this is Betsy from Microsoft and we'd like you to come by